Four NFL Team Employees Rate the Top Three Players at Each Non-Special Teams Positions

Written by: Hondo S. Carpenter Sr. on 14th April 2009

Four of my friends who are NFL team employees agreed to give me their top three players at every non-special teams position leading up to the draft. They represent four different teams. Two from the NFC and two from the AFC.

I will keep each of their identities confidential as you can imagine that their respective teams wouldn’t appreciate their participation in this endeavor. All I asked from them was that they give me their list. I weighed all four lists and put them in the appropriate order. I weighed them as I do the top twenty lists. Three points are awarded for a #1 rating, two for a #2 rating and one for a #3 rating. In case of a tie, I add a fifth persons list. With the top twenty list a prospect is given 20 points when rated #1 and a prospect rated #20 would get one point.

This list is not the order that I think they will be drafted, it is simply four men who get paid to do this for a living and who they think are the best three at each non-special teams position.

I will also have them all give me a mock first round draft, as the draft gets closer. Obviously they know other teams better than any of us, so I have asked each for their mock draft and why they think each team does what. As with this list, I will weigh each of their picks and see if there is consensus on what they think. I will post at least one of their comments about each pick.

So here are the top three players at the non-special teams positions.